There are still copies of Ivory
Tower (acme 15cd), Appointment
With Venus (acme 5cd) and Yuri
Gagarin (acme 23cd) in the Cherry Red vaults, both on CD
and Vinyl! Cherry Red repackaged much of the él catalogue
on its Richmond subsidiary, including a 20-track "Best Of Louis
Philippe" which they released under the title Claret (monde 4cd). Re-releases of mid-price double-CD's
have followed: Sunshine/Delta
Kiss and, Rainfall/Jean
Renoir. And yes, they do operate a mail-order service.

Disques
Du Crepuscule
A Dutch enthusiast named Frank Brinkhuis is behind this very thorough
history of the legendary Belgian label, on which Louis made his
debut as The Border Boys (Tribute EP, 1985).

Classy record company founded by the Hon. Matthew Jacobson, now
relocated in Detroit. Matt has released Momus and Mr. Wright material
in the past and is preparing a monster double-album of él
covers (Instant Coffee). More importantly for us, he became
the first American to put out a Louis Philippe album in the US with
the superb compilation A Kiss
In The Funhouse. Matt is also an accomplished prestidigitarian.

Radio
Khartoum
The brainchild of Alexander "Sasha" Bailey, who runs one
of the most eccentric labels on the West Coast.

Siesta
Records
The best-dressed Spanish label has released Louis's Jackie
Girl (Siesta 56) and is also the home to an international
stable of pop acts including Basque quintet La Buena Vida and Swedish
combo Red Sleeping Beauty. You may access the site in Spanish and/or
English...

XIIIbis
Records
XIIIbis Records is a Paris-based company with which Louis was associated
in the late nineties, offering French releases of Azure,
A Kiss in the Funhouse
(different version from the US record) and Nusch,
which are all available through the label's website. Louis also
contributed a number of tracks to various XIIIbis compilations,
like So Danco Samba (with Sean O'Hagan) on Tribute to
Jobim, Le Bal des Laze and L'Oiseau de Nuit on
Tribute to Polnareff ...

Tricatel
Home page of the Tricatel label, founded and run by Bertrand Burgalat,
a long-time friend of Louis who also produced the Sunshine
album. A few LP tracks appear on various Tricatel compilations, as well as
vocal idents and jingles (Au soleil de Tricatel) specifically recorded for
the label. Louis also played guitar and sang backing vocals on the
Valerie Lemercier Chante album (by, who else, French actress Valerie
Lemercier), as well as on April March's Superbanyair CD.
Tricatel released 9th & 13th, a words-and-music album by Jonathan Coe, Louis and Danny
Manners, in January 2002.

The Clientele
Alasdair MacLean's indie band: Louis contributed string arrangements to their God Save The Clientele album, and more recently
Alasdair has played in Louis's gigging trio, and, with fellow Clientele member Mel Draisey, contributes to An Unknown Spring.

Cathal
Coughlan
Ex-Microdisney and Fatima Mansions singer/songwriter and more recently has released several albums under his own name with backing band
The Grand Necropolitan Quartet/Quintet/Sextet - with Danny Manners on bass.

HaLo
Homepage of HaLo, a young Japanese singer and photographer who has
worked with Louis on a number of occasions, including her first two albums,
Blue and Yellow.

The
High Llamas
...are, of course, the band responsible for marvellous songs such
as Checking In, Checking Out, all of them written by former
Microdisney guitarist/songwriter and Stereolab collaborator Sean O'Hagan. Sean also contributed guitar and banjo to
The Wonder Of It All.

Louise Le May
A wonderfully original singer/songwriter from Hackney, London. Louis, Ken and Danny were involved in her debut EP,
Tell Me Something That Is New, and a full length album is in the works.

David Longdon
Originally from Nottingham, David is a superbly talented singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has contributed to several Louis
Philippe albums and live gigs. His current main project is contemporary prog band Big Big Train.

Momus
A beautifully-designed and most popular site set up by an old accomplice
from days gone by, and an Internet freak to match. Some lovely pictures,
too. All you ever wanted to know about one of the most oblique of
lyricists working today, and more.

The
Monochrome Set
A site set up by Swedish enthusiast Henrik Engström. Discography,
lyrics, etc.

Stuart Moxham
Guitarist and songwriter for seminal post-punk band Young Marble Giants, and The Gist. Since then, Stuart has released several
albums under his own name, including The Huddle House with Louis.

Martin
Newell
Poet, songwriter and English pop genius. Louis
produced his 1995 album The Off-White Album and the two
have performed live together a number of times over the years.

Fredo Viola
Terrific singer/songwriter and multi-media artist currently based in Woodstock, NY, who has recently arranged for and
performed with Louise Le May.

Michael
Hauben's Web Music Listing
No longer maintained, so some info could be out of date, but tons of links to band sites, plus reviews
and directories of Paris and New York's best shops/clubs, etc. ..The
site was created by Michael Hauben (of course), whom we believe
might be a student/researcher at Columbia University. Then again,
he might not.

Planet
Claire
Of interest to French pop fans...a site maintained by Denis Prevot
(Radio-Aligre FM), one of a handful of that country's DJs to play
decent music.

Instrument
Jokes
Light relief for musicians. Some of the jokes are excruciating,
others are very funny indeed. This link was brought to Sunshine's
attention by Daniel
Manners, double-bass player and netsurfer extraordinaire.